Red, Green, and Blue

Clear skies and Colorado’s strong, high-altitude sun provided an appropriate setting for a solar energy event at this week’s Democratic National Convention. Held in and around Coors Field in Denver, the event mixed two of my favorite things–renewable energy and politics–at one of my favorite places to be–a baseball park. Unfortunately, there was no baseball.

Outside the stadium was the normal smattering of solar demonstrations, booths, and vendors, Inside the stadium was a political rally of sorts; mixing music with speakers, including an impassioned talk given by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Now don’t get all worked up thinking it was anything like Thursday night’s blowout acceptance speech across the river at Invesco Field at Mile High, but many of the themes were the same. Kennedy spoke about sustaining the economic health of our communities, protecting the environment, growing a carbon-free economy, getting off foreign oil and, of course, he spoke about Barack Obama. I recorded the last couple minutes and embedded the video below [running time about 2:30]

More Democratic Convention coverage at Red, Green, and Blue:

• Convention Conservation: Is Obama Presidential Enough?
• Can the Democrats Win the West?
  
• McCain Supporters On Hand to Disrupt DNC Energy Policy Event
• Pena Channels the Spectre of 1970s Energy Crisis at DNC

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